Kevin Wilson Quotes

I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film.

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• To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Good
  • End
  • Mystery

• When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Great
  • Family
  • America

• I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Good
  • America
  • Age

• I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Internet

• I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • People
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• Pablo wanted to be loved and accepted. He wanted to destroy the elite he despised so much, but he also wanted to be the president of Colombia.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • President
  • Loved
  • Destroy

• The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Friends
  • Years
  • California

• You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Hero
  • Brave

• While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Business
  • Energy
  • Focus

• While I have the greatest respect for the Supreme Court's members, I cannot claim familiarity with any particular judicial philosophies the justices might possess.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • Respect
  • Greatest
  • Judicial

• I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Mother

• My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Job
  • Control
  • Myself

• If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Women
  • Change
  • Rules

• I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Think
  • New
  • Building

• I'm a television junkie.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Television

• I don't know if I'm a method actor.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Know
  • Actor
  • Method

• I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Trying
  • Know
  • Always

• I'm the biggest music lover in the world. I mean, I have seen everybody. I went on tour with Michael Jackson and the Jacksons four or five times.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • World
  • Music
  • Mean

• It has its perks, being Mrs. Chancellor, and if I have to use it, by golly, I'll use it. I'm through standing in lines at my age.

  

  Jeanne Cooper
  • Age

• My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Up
  • Great
  • Live

• I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Music
  • Way
  • Doing

• If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.

  

  Ellen Terry
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film.

  

  Kevin Wilson
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